Khalil Gibran Quotes About Love
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
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Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons
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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
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God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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Love is the veil between lover and lover.
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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love
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Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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All work is empty save when there is love.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
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